cstring

C-style string definition and manipulation library

• added CSTRING_RC_SYSTEMSPECIFICFAILURE
• all makefiles now build cstring.3.core*.(lib|a) rather than cstring.3*.(lib|a) : this was erroneously omitted from the 3.6.1 release

• added CSTRING_F_MEMORY_CAN_GROW_TO_HEAP flag, which allows a borrowed buffer to grow (into the heap)
• renamed output library to cstring.core.* (in preparation for coming 4.x expansions)
• added string access shims for CSTRING_RC
• added cstring_getStatusCodeStringLength()
• renamed cstring_error() => cstring_getStatusCodeString()
• added VC10 solution and project files
• added VC9 solution and project files
• added test.unit.cstring.auto_buffer
• added test.unit.cstring.cstring_getStatusCodeString
• added test.scratch.auto_buffer
• full Win64 compatibility
• fixed up minor documentation mistakes

• further Win64-compatibility
• added test.scratch.HGLOBAL_on_x64 project
• added VC++ 10 compatibility

• fixed implicit link defects
• completed Win64 compatibility
• minor adjustments to compiler warnings

• added new API functions for cstring I/O, replacing and inserting substrings, and initialisation
  • added cstring_readline() and cstring_writeline() functions, for FILE* I/O
  • added cstring_createN() function, which creates a string with N repetitions of a given character
  • added cstring_replace(), cstring_replaceLen(), cstring_replaceAll() (sub-)string replacement functions
  • added cstring_replace(), cstring_replaceLen(), cstring_replaceAll() (sub-)string replacement functions
• added compatibility with Borland C/C++ 5.8.2, 5.9 and 6.1, Intel C/C++ 9-11, and GCC 4.1-4.4
• added three unit/component test programs
  • added test.unit.cstring.1
  • added test.unit.cstring.2
  • added test.component.cstring_readline
• wholesale changes to makefiles / distribution, incorporating all changes to source & test programs; see installation guide

• compatible with Win64
• compatible with Safe String library
• additional error codes in API

• Now roots the distribution under cstring-X.Y, e.g. cstring-3.4.3

• The makefiles now build libraries whose names are comprised of the major version number, e.g. cstring.3.vc6.lib, in addition to the one created in previous cstring versions: e.g. cstring.vc6.lib
• Type cstring_flags_t is defined to disambiguate flags params from size params (which use the size_t)
• Added CSTRING_RC_CANNOTYIELDFROMSO return code, used when trying to yield a string from a dynamic library implementation of the library that has been allocated using realloc().
• cstring_yield() has been deprecated, in favour of cstring_yield2(). If you want the old behaviour, you must define CSTRING_OBSOLETE.

• Changed the memory allocation algorithm, such that each reallocation is at least twice the size of the extant block
• Now dynamically loads the CoTaskMemRealloc function from OLE32.DLL, so easing the linking burden when working with a variety of compilers